Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βέλτιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βέλτιστος βέλτιστη βέλτιστον

Structure: βελτιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. be/lteros.

Sense

  1. best, my good friend, the best, what is best, the aristocracy

Examples

  • αἱ γὰρ βέλτισται ψυχαὶ μαντεύονται ταῦτα οὕτωσ ἔχειν, αἱ δὲ μοχθηρόταται οὔ φασι, κυριώτερα δὲ τὰ τῶν θείων ἀνδρῶν μαντεύματα ἢ τὰ τῶν μή. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 10:4)
  • ἀνάγκη δή μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι, ὦ Ἱππία, λέγειν ὅτι ἀσινέσταται αὗται τῶν ἡδονῶν εἰσι καὶ βέλτισται, καὶ ἀμφότεραι καὶ ἑκατέρα· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 137:2)
  • τῷ ὄντι γὰρ βέλτισταί εἰσιν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 137:5)
  • εἰ γὰρ καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι διπλοῦν, τὸ μὲν ἕτερόν που τούτου κολακεία ἂν εἰή καὶ αἰσχρὰ δημηγορία, τὸ δ’ ἕτερον καλόν, τὸ παρασκευάζειν ὅπωσ ὡσ βέλτισται ἔσονται τῶν πολιτῶν αἱ ψυχαί, καὶ διαμάχεσθαι λέγοντα τὰ βέλτιστα, εἴτε ἡδίω εἴτε ἀηδέστερα ἔσται τοῖσ ἀκούουσιν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 340:4)
  • αἱ γυναῖκεσ τῶν γυναικῶν οὐχ αὗται ἔσονται βέλτισται; (Plato, Republic, book 5 181:2)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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